Chapter Ninety-Four: Slaying the Divine
The Dragon God’s secret weapon has finally appeared.
A chilling donation post suddenly surfaced: I am utterly shaken right now! This book is so brilliant I have no words for it! Man, this is incredible!
The Golden Supreme Alliance of The Great God was born.
A donation of ten million Dot Dot coins!
Converted into Great Qin currency, that comes to one hundred thousand.
“So this is how the final showdown could be missing a Golden Supreme Alliance? The Dragon Alliance has made its move.”
“This is bad for the Hero Alliance now. They’ve donated ten million and put up one thousand monthly votes, yet Dragon Suppression is still behind by more than eight hundred votes.”
“It’s more than eight hundred. The Dragon Alliance still has other major alliances lighting up in red.”
“The Dragon Alliance really is formidable, worthy of being the overbearing ruler of the online literature world for the past year. Its position is unshakable.”
“We’ve watched the drama for a month, and in the end the Dragon Alliance still comes out on top.”
“Whatever the case, this newcomer has made a name for himself. The rising great author. In the future, perhaps only he will be able to contend with the Dragon God.”
“Haha, isn’t that exactly what Dot Dot wanted to see?”
“Neutral readers still aren’t enough. Though they claim a million-strong army supports Lotus of Thought, far too few have actually backed him. After all, not everyone thinks Dragon Suppression is worth reading.”
“...”
The moment The Great God received its Golden Supreme Alliance, the Dot Dot forum exploded at once, with sighs and regrets everywhere.
In the end, a newcomer still could not slay the gods. The people of the Dragon Alliance would never let Lotus of Thought rise by stepping over them.
“It’s only because this newcomer and the Dragon God started serializing and went live at the same time. Otherwise, if he were stepping on the shoulders of an ordinary great author, he’d still have a real chance.”
“Not necessarily. If it were some other great author, there wouldn’t be so many readers from outside the Hero Alliance helping out.”
“Haha, people just can’t stand the Dragon Alliance crowd. That’s why everyone gathers fuel to make the fire blaze higher. If it were another great author, this newcomer might not have been so lucky.”
“You know, I checked it out. The later plot of Dragon Suppression is extremely tight and compact. It doesn’t feel like something a newcomer could write. The prose may be a little immature, but it reads smoothly and naturally.”
“Brother upstairs, you’re too naive. Can Lotus of Thought even count as a pure newcomer? Haven’t you seen the novella Journey of Enlightenment he uploaded? That guy has real substance. Saying he’s gifted would not be an exaggeration.”
“What nonsense are you all talking? He’s a livestream host. He can earn over a hundred thousand from a single broadcast donation, and take home several hundred thousand a month. His real battlefield is the livestream platform. Hmph, if the wealthy women and the pretty young things from the livestream rooms came over, what would the Dragon Alliance amount to?”
“...”
Everyone felt sorry for Lotus of Thought, but before a few minutes had passed, exciting news came from the Dragon Suppression comment section as well.
“Haha, so Brother is playing here too. I’ll come join the fun as well. You dare say our Hero Alliance is the Dog Bear Alliance? Damn your ancestors, what are you worth? I’ll kill you all.”
A striking red-highlighted post appeared.
Many people looked and cried out in shock: holy crap, ten million Dot Dot coins—that’s seven zeroes.
And so the Golden Supreme Alliance of Dragon Suppression was born as well.
A reader with the nickname Hero Alliance King Invincible, in a fit of rage, slammed down ten million, which converts to one hundred thousand Great Qin coins.
When Su Tong saw that red-highlighted post, he felt no excitement at all—only pain.
Damn it. From a bit of inside information, Su Tong knew that Dragon God had signed a platinum contract, and the donation revenue split was either paid at a fixed rate or at a ninety-to-ten division, with the author getting ninety and the website taking ten.
Whereas he himself had only the most ordinary contract, with subscriptions and donations split evenly, fifty-fifty.
A perfectly good one hundred thousand in soft currency had to have fifty thousand taken by the website, then taxes drawn off by the national tax bureau, and more than half was gone.
Su Tong finally understood why the currency was called soft currency. Seeing so much money vanish for no reason made his heart ache terribly. When ordinary girls see money, they just lie down and go soft...
Inside the Dragon Alliance fan group:
“Damn it, this Lotus of Thought is one of those livestream people. His supporters from that side have come to help.”
“Counterattack, counterattack. In the online literature world, we are the true kings. In the realm of web fiction, even if a dragon comes here, it has to coil up for us.”
“Keep the firepower coming.”
“Fix bayonets. I’m going to highlight again.”
“Damn it, I can’t swallow this. How can our Dragon Alliance let a newcomer step on us? Keep the ten-million red highlights coming.”
“...”
The comment section of Dragon Suppression once again saw a donation of ten million, stunning everyone.
It has arrived!
The rich patrons of the Dragon Alliance have gone berserk!
Less than three minutes remain before October begins.
“Heehee, brother just likes to play. This little lady doesn’t have much presence on the livestream platform, and the several times I asked brother out all sank without a trace. So I’ll make a little showing here and let brother remember me.”
A female reader with the nickname Hero Alliance of Unrivaled Under Heaven also made her move, shocking all the readers once more.
Ten million Dot Dot coins.
Yet another major alliance worth ten million appeared.
“Damn, damn, damn, who exactly is Lotus of Thought? How does he have so many wealthy patrons supporting him?” someone, not understanding, cared only about the online literature world and cried out in alarm.
More than ninety percent of Dot Dot’s readers truly did not know where Lotus of Thought had come from. Seeing the people of the Hero Alliance and the Dragon Alliance fighting to this extent, all of them burned with excitement.
Damn, they were really rich—throwing around real money like that.
Su Tong clutched his head. This was too cruel. By the time the money reached his hands, more than half of it had effectively been burned away.
The people of the Dragon Alliance had gone mad.
“Keep going! We still have ammunition.”
“Damn it, he’s just a newcomer with such a small cut, and he still dares to duel us head-on? Let’s see how we don’t bankrupt him.”
“Our Dragon God gets a full share after taxes are deducted. We’ll crush those idiots to death.”
“Two minutes left. We still have time. Keep firing the nuclear bombs. Not only will we trap them with the money, we’ll also break their spirits. The final victory is still ours. I don’t believe they still have any warheads left.”
“...”
The Dragon Alliance’s warheads were once again in position.
“Holy crap, damn Dot Dot, my broadband is fifty-meg fiber! Why can’t I open the donation page?” One of the Dragon Alliance’s major patrons, responsible for launching the warheads, nearly went insane.
The webpage had frozen.
“Damn, my page is frozen too. I can’t refresh.”
“Mine won’t open either.”
“What a damn rip-off. It freezes at a time like this.”
“Dot Dot, can you at least change to a better server? It lags every other moment. What, are you trying to kill your father?”
“...”
Everyone tragically discovered that the Dot Dot servers were running beyond capacity and showing signs of collapse.
The technical department of Dot Dot wore miserable expressions. The number of concurrent users was too high; the request load was approaching the bottleneck, and the servers could not handle the processing.
The people of the Dragon Alliance looked as though they had swallowed a dead child, rage surging to their heads. Their warheads had not even finished launching yet.
Both sides had launched two warheads each, so they were even, but before that Dragon Suppression had been ahead of The Great God.
Buzz~
Midnight arrived.
“Dot Dot, I’ll wipe out your whole family.”
After midnight, when they saw the champion atop the monthly vote rankings, everyone in the Dragon Alliance went completely mad, all arrows turning toward Dot Dot itself.
The September monthly vote champion: Dragon Suppression, 71,056 votes; second place: The Great God, 70,992 votes...